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boasters boast
Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to. Eliza Haywood
boasting bore devil grotesque mental pin special superior vanity whatever
What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting D. James
boast efficient time
We're not apologizing for it. We boast about it. It's an efficient use of time and resources.
boasting cold deaf devoid eats five man merely might perpetual proud sad taste tells
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
boast bring business customers profit project repeat
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
boast canada canadian committed fallen government number troops
But what they did not know - and what the Canadian government did not boast about - was that Canada had fallen to 35th place in the world in the number of troops it had committed to peacekeeping missions. Paul Ford
boast came favourite former jean lose man mayor money montreal olympics promise
My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.' Martin O'Malley
boast invented june night
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.
boast game good lost maybe saw seed underdog west
I don't think we saw this coming. I thought we were ready. But there are not many conferences who can boast a 12 seed as good as West Virginia. We approached this game like we were the underdog having lost to them, but maybe that wasn't the right way to do it.
possession goods insatiable
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. David Hume
possession struggle valuable
We're competitive now. We struggle to score. That's why every possession is so valuable to us.
possession power tendency time
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it. John C. Calhoun
possession religion
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
possession humans human-beings
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. Albert Camus
possession values
Understand that the only possession of any value is life. Andre Gide
possession
Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them. Dan Davis
possession
Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly. David Platt
possession proclamation
Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.
thyself
Acquaint thyself with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
thyme bishops stories
No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge. Cornelia Funke
thyself
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself. Edgar Allan Poe
thy
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
thyself
Content thyself to be obscurely good. Joseph Addison
thyself
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. Thomas Browne